Friday, November 13, 2009

2) Pushed, jumped, or thrown under the bus? Gitmo was a centerpiece of Obama's campaign pledges, and he needs to get this done today. You'd think one of them there wide open flat spaces in the middle of the country would jump at the chance to receive the federal funds that would generously flow from this.

3) It looks like we are going to have to come up with a better definition of what constitutes an intelligent species, or be prepared to stop using the denigration "when pigs fly"...

4) Gee...only took them, what? 35 years? to live up to their principles. We should assume this means they're getting serious about abortion reform. No! Really! They really really mean it this time!

"Liberals got women the right to vote. Liberals got African-Americans the right to vote. Liberals created Social Security and lifted millions of elderly people out of poverty. Liberals ended segregation. Liberals passed the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act. Liberals created Medicare. Liberals passed the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act. What did Conservatives do? They opposed them on every one of those things...every one! So when you try to hurl that label at my feet, 'Liberal,' as if it were something to be ashamed of, something dirty, something to run away from, it won't work, Senator, because I will pick up that label and I will wear it as a badge of honor." -- Matt Santos, The West Wing